About 20 People Arrested by the Copper Mafia for 102 Robberies in 8 Autonomies Valued at 2.5 Million

The Civil Guard has broken up a criminal group called the Copper Mafia, to which 102 copper thefts are attributed in eight autonomous communities, in which they stole...

The Civil Guard has disbanded a criminal group called the Copper Mafia, to which 102 robberies are attributed in eight communities.

A gang of thieves disguised themselves as Areti workers and stole kilos and kilos of copper from an electrical cabin in Piazza Grazioli, between a State Police headquarters and a Demanio residence in the top ranks of the police, totally unconnected to the facts. There, the copper gang would have acted undisturbed...

The Civil Guard has broken up an itinerant criminal group, composed of five people from Madrid, who had moved to Galicia to commit a wave of thefts inside the commercial vehicles of the "services sector."The operation, called "Rentrap", has culminated in the arrest of those involved and the clarification of at least 23 robberies with force in the municipalities of Santiago de Compostela, Ames, Negreira, Brión, Vedra, Rois, Sigüeiro (Oroso), Cald…

Until now they were the biggest copper theft specialists in Spain.The Civil Guard has ended the Romanian mafia that has razed waste treatment plants and solar farms in half of Spain, affecting eight autonomous communities in total.A band dedicated exclusively to the theft of copper cable that did not admit drug addicts in their ranks and charged a quota to thieves who wanted to participate in the cable looting.The operation began about a year ag…

The group was operating from Madrid and perpetrated robberies in up to eight autonomous communities, including Castilla-La Mancha